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Bringing High-Speed Broadband to Vocational Schools in Palestine

In 2011 Inveneo and Coolnet, with funding from craigconnects, began Palestine's Technical Vocational Educational Training (TVET) program. Connected to aging infrastructure with extreme network congestion, the schools were functionally cut off from the Internet, with one principal needing to disconnect the entire school and wait 15 minutes just to send Read More…

Annie Leibovitz, DonorsChoose, and Myself walked into a school…

Hey folks, I went to NYC a few months back for a Vanity Fair photo shoot with DonorsChoose.org staff, board members, and advisers. All photos were taken by Annie Leibovitz. The photo shoot took place at P.S. 33 in NYC. Featured are DonorsChoose.org board members and advisers Timothy Ferriss, author Read More…

If it wasn't for comedy…

If it wasn't for comedy, I'd have no personality at all. I just found this video of me and the First Lady. I think it had to do with the "craigslist for good" concept.     This was in Washington, DC at an allforgood.org event, which has since subsumed into Read More…